Bronwen Wilson

Bronwen Wilson teaches Art History at UCLA where she is the Edward W. Carter Chair in European Art and the Director of the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies at William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Her research and teaching explore the artistic and urban cultures of early modern Europe (1300-1700), with a focus on space, print, portraiture, landscape and transcultural, material and environmental interactions. Recent publications include two volumes co-edited with Angela Vanhaelen:...See more

Bronwen Wilson teaches Art History at UCLA where she is the Edward W. Carter Chair in European Art and the Director of the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies at William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Her research and teaching explore the artistic and urban cultures of early modern Europe (1300-1700), with a focus on space, print, portraiture, landscape and transcultural, material and environmental interactions. Recent publications include two volumes co-edited with Angela Vanhaelen: Making Worlds: Global Invention in the Early Modern Period (2022) and "Making Worlds: Art, Materiality, and Early Modern Globalization," a special issue of the Journal of Early Modern History (23, nos. 2-3, May 2019), and several articles, such as "Afterword: Ornament and the Fabrication of Early Modern Worlds," in Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents , (eds) Louise Arizzoli and Maryanne Horowitz (Brill, 2020); and "Spiritual and Material Conversions: Federico Barocci's Christ and Mary Magdalene," Quid est sacramentum?: On the Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 , (eds) Walter Melion, Lee Palmer Wandel, and Elizabeth Pastan (Brill, October 2019). Her current book project, "Otherworldly Natures: Lithic Formations, In-Between Spaces, and Early Modern Italian Art," probes artistic engagement with quarries and riverbeds. See less